The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνθρακῖτις“a kind of coal”
- English todayanthracite
Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.